The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-11-12
THE EXECUTION
OF THE ANARCHISTS EN-
GEL, PARSONS, SPIES
AND FISCHER.
THEIR SCAFFOLD DROP
FALLS At 1854.
Not 4 drum was heard, nor funeral note,
AS their corse5 to the Soafold were hurried.
Not drum was heard, nor a funeral note,
As their corse5 to the SoaHOld were hurried.
Anarchists Day.

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Anarchists Day.
lBy telegraph to the AIhSVille Citizen
Yesterday the telegraph diffused
its bulletins in rapid succession, be-
ginning at $40 a. m., when it was
announced ttat Chief Deputy Sher-
| iff Gleason had entered Cook county
Jail with the fatal documents au-
thorizing the execution of Parsons,
Engel, Fischer and Spies.
At 10 these men asked for twenty
minutes each to speak on the gal
lows.
Immediately after they all joined
in singing their death song, the
Marsellaise Hymn.
At HIP the condemned men
were eating their final meal.
At 11:23 the sheriff began to read
the death warrant of Spies
The regular kilograms folow in
the following order:
EXECUTION OF THE ANARCHISTS, PAR
SONS, FISCHER. ENGEL AND SPIES
THE SCAFFOLD DROP
FALLS AT 11:54. \
Cook COUNTY JAIL, CHICAGO, Nov.
11,-Anarchists Parsons, Fischer,
Engel and Spies, the convicted Hay
market murdefers, have been throt-
tied by the law, the self Same law
that they had hoped to throttle. The
scaffold drop fell at 1854 to- day.
The following bulletins detail the
progress ofthe execution:
PRELIMINARY DETAILS.
CHICAGO, Nov. 11.-At 6 o'clock
this morning three hundred police
men armed with rifles, bayonets,
revolvers and full cartridge boxes,
we're on duty at the Jail. Chief Eb-
ersold is in command in person, his
aids being Captains Buckley, Hub
bard and Setback. A battalion of
three companies of police that haye
been quartered in the Nh sad in the
criminal court building since the
new orders went into force will do
duty Inside of the building to-day.
Tho officers in command have been
instructed how to dispose of their
men, details having been made for
every advantageous post. In addi~
tion to the battalion on the inside
there will be force on the outside
composed of a company from each
of the five precincts commanded by
the Lieutenant, and three compa-
nies from the central detail. This
force will be armed with rifles and
will surround the entire block in
which the Jail is situated, which i'll
addition to the cardonE of the po-
lice will be inclosed by ropes.
Lieutenan.s have been ordered to
station their companies in order
with pieces and fixed bay onets and
have beer especially instructed to
hold their position no matter what
happens until they receive orders
from. their superior officers. The
objects of the orders are these: Ten
will be deployed in open orders, so
that if they are attacked especially
with bombs, excitement will not be
so great, while at the same tins the
police will be able to return the
fire with greater effect, and less dan
ger to themselves and in case of at
tack they will not break, but Hold
their positions until reinforced or
called back. Police officials said in
ispeaRing of the arrangements that
the Chief desire in the case of attack
Was to keep the police from being
thrown into confusion. If this
could be prevented, they need not
fear any mob. The entire force
will be held in the position desired
until as late in the day as may be
thought wise. Rls,nbers of the po-
lice department, not on duty at the
Ijail will bc held iii reserve ut the
various stations In readiness to mass
at any point ut d moments notice
except very few who Will be out
on post. Detectives wiz be sta
toned outside the police lines and
will mingle with the crowd. Lieut..
Steele will be there TO look after his
men.
During the long hours Of the
night, only newspaper men who
were admitted to the inner precincts
of the Jail were the Representatives
of the Associated Press. They had
quarters in what is known as the
Lawyers Cage, and were within ten
feet Of the Anarchists. At 4 O'Clock
one of them made a tour of the
lower corridor where Spies, Parsons
and IGngel we're confined. In each
cell were two stalwart guards who
stood watch over the Anarchists
The former chatted in low tones
and whispered jokes among them
SELVES, to while away the time
But talked and whispered Jokes
were all lost on the prisoners. Each
one was in the hardest of slumbers
, Spies lay on one side, his head or
; his arm and slept as peacefully as &
baby. Fischer had turned over or
his back and the consequence Wa.
that there were frequent Inores that
echoed in startling manner